Quote Originally Posted by HakuroDK View Post
2. I am 99% certain of this fact: If it wasn't on the cash shop, it would not be in the game beyond the event it took place in. Want evidence? The 1.0 tattoo.
Funny you talk about 1.0 stuff. Back in 1.0 it was tradition to release the previous years items on a vendor for a minor gil cost. The philosiphy behind it was it was exclusive to the event for a year and beyond that it was good content to keep in the game with no sense to remove it. There is no reason to remove the content from the game and to put it behind a paywall, the only "Sense" it makes is financial because SE marketing department knows people will shell out the cash for content removed from the game that they payed a subscription to make.

In all reality supporting the cash shop is supporting the removal of content from the game. Without the financial incentive to sell the products for cash they would most certainly find their way into the game as they traditionaly did, it would make little sense to not.

The legacy Tatoo and 1.0 Goobue are a tad different mainly because they were promised as exclusive items for 1.0 players, putting them on the cash shop would be the ultimate slap in the face to the players of that time, where as the seasonal events have no such promises of exclusivity asides the year the event happened.

But you know...to each their own.